NOVEMBER 5—6, 1918

**a.**

1) From workers' control to workers' management of production.

2) From the all-peasant struggle against landowners to the proletarian struggle in the countryside against all bourgeoisie.

3) From defenselessness to the Red Army.

4) From isolation to a series of revolutions created by Soviet republics.

1—3

I = Soviet power (and constitution) as the dictatorship of the proletariat.
("The ruling class")

**b.**

1. Significance of the October* coup:
before it: imperialism
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deception of the masses
concealment of this deception by petty bourgeois so-called socialism.

2. The rupture of imperialist war, (publication of secret treaties), power of the proletariat.
The beginning of socialist revolution.
Its difficult growth:

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**FOOTNOTES:**

1 At the top of the letter, A. A. Ioffe wrote the following note to V. V. Vorovskii, dated October 22: "V. V., Ilich asks you to forward this." A. A. Ioffe was at that time in Berlin as a representative of the RSFSR. V. V. Vorovskii was a representative of the RSFSR in Switzerland.

1 On July 18, 1918 in No. 29 of "Sozial[istische] Auslandspolitik Korresponden[z]" an article by L. Martov was published: "Marx and the Problem of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat."

* What is being discussed has not been established.

* October. Ed.